EA turning off games’ online servers is turning me off EA

Rory Boland, Which? Conversation: Electronic Arts (EA) has shut down online servers for a number of its games. But some gamers are losing more than just the chance to trade punches with opponents around the world…
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Hopefully homebrewers will have a workaround by then. I'm not a fan of hacking/cracking for malicious purposes, but I respect home devs that solve problems such as this. I don't know what it will take to make it happen, but there are some pretty smart people in this world.

Im sure Maxis would be kind enough to add a offline mode If that ever happens. I mean who knows when they will release another sim city to have to do that. And bad company 2 came out in 09 and its still up and running. so is 2142, and 1942.

And we already knew that EA has been shutting down the annual sports games servers after 2 years. And they never shut down BF2's servers.... maybe crummy modern combat that flopped.

this is why people are trying to bash and protest this type of stuff because they are thinking long term while some of you just thinking about right now getting your fix untill ooops its to late to do anything about it bail out big banks time, recession time, messed up goverment time. what we see happning in game industry is basically what happen to the country people being dumb and letting crap companys take advantage because they want that quick fix now when they can get the same fix but with better long term security if they fight back now and not later.

I hope people have half a brain enough to stop supporting EA like I did. Time to stop supporting TRASHCAN companies, and trash bag corporations. WHAT is wrong with people? Don't they get it? Have people stopped educating themselves (independently)? Have people really forgotten how to be independent and handle their own responsibility? Has the Government really succeeded to that extent in making our society that dumbed-down and dependent on everything? YES. WE all know this by now, clearly they have.. it's time for an overhaul with the new generations coming up and the young 1970's and 80's generation. Rise and shine, or before you know it, everything will be ran by EA's across the the country. Now of course.. it already is, but rather "They will come to stay" if nothing is done. - Also, while I'm at it, go watch "Steven Greer's Sirius Disclosure", released April 22nd 2013 Earth day. Maybe this will help open the minds of people who actually STILL think we are free in this Garbage-Run Country, and whom still do not believe in "other life" or even a simple PLANT, being capable of living in a single Universe of 100+ trillion planets. Lets not forget the Multi-verse is being proven and IS USED AS FACT because it is the only answer to their missing equations for most scientists today (yea guys, clearly Multiple Universes were created just for our planet, we be special. *sarcasm). - Time to wake up, stop supporting loser companies who's only interests is money and trash bags. Start understanding that you don't know squat about anything (other than slavery and death) that happens around this planet, or even with your OWN Government/Military Industrial Complex. It makes me sad in my heart literally. Once this is a much larger realization, we will begin to move forward and LEAVE our Counter-productive, slavery-status, competition ego's, short-penis cars, outdated, useless, inefficient, corrupted, abused and reused economy system in the entire galaxy shared by many that are beyond Governments and money systems. For the record I speak from fact, seeing things myself and being "places", not my "opinion", in other words, there's no arguing my point, it's already there and happening, so please don't bother, your argument is invalid and there are many others that follow and know exactly what I'm talking about. Thanks

They (EA) will continue to sell said games without any warning/notice to the average consumer. I'm not even the average consumer and it happened to me. NBA STREET HOMECOURT. (The ONLY 'street' basketball game this gen.) Bought the game. Took it home. Couldn't play online. No one told me. Had to go right back and return it. I was done with EA then & there.

Nothing last forever people. More so 4 to 5 years after the title came out. Along with a already follow up title that is still online, etc. I loved MGO ( Metal Gear Online ). Gone on the 4 year mark. Been playing some Killzone 2 lately and it runs like CRAP. So many errors and SO much lag with the whole world playing on one server it seems. But again, we can't expect games to run forever. That's just not realistic. I would pretty much see the same names on Killzone 2 every single day.

Now imagine next generation when everything needs a connection. These servers shutting down no longer mean "damn can't play the multiplayer and get those stupid trophies," it means "damn, I can't play the game I paid 60 dollars for AT ALL!"